help what does it mean to "Log in"?

i read a text about how to crack a windows xp pass
and it said to login (does matter guest/user) and then do stuff reset the machine and do something else
how do i login and how do i reset the machine???

i cant find it anywhere(the text) but ill explain.
i have a user name and password of a remote machine
now in the text they said :
"First log-in to the machine (Does'nt matter if Guest or User)"
and i have a user password and username now how do i log in????/

well, if it is Windows XP, then I assume they mean you have to access it with remote desktop, which allows you to log in as though you were right there. It could also refer to telnet, or any other means of access. Those are the most likely, however.

connect to the machine using one of those two methods and try your user/pass there.

i actully heard this from a buddy of mine but i never tryed it. I guess mircoshaft has a backdoor for windows xp when you get to the login screen/page press f8 and it will bypass there passcode and log you in as admin. like i said i'm not sure if this works or not but i guess i'll reboot this box and find out.....

i read a text about how to crack a windows xp passand it said to login (does matter guest/user) and then do stuff reset the machine and do something elsehow do i login and how do i reset the machine???

It sounds like a privelege escalation exploit, meaning that you have to have access to the machine to subsequently crack another user's password. Best guess without the text you referrenced.

but lets say other texts like a text the says like this:
Login in yada yada yada and copy the file getadmin to the machine!
the start the program and now you can see you have administrator privilages??
what about this one?

I think I understand... a lot of text tell you what to do AFTER you are in a system. They could be escalation hax, cracks, trojans, whatever... I think he is asking how to get in, in the first place.

Every system is different. If telnet is not open, try FTP, see if there are any vulnerabilities to it. Remote desktop? trojan? That is why most texts skip that part, because there is no "magic bullet" that works to get you in.

hmm...but there are always those idiots who have the user account "administrator" without any password...nothing that a little scanning for NT/SQL pass wont take care of

...and even if you get just a user/guest account, there is a exe and a dll file you can copy to their computer through telnet, terminal services, etc that will grab the .sam file (which is a list of users/encoded passwords) and bruteforce hack the passwords and then you are home free.